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Report from 9/25 Fundraiser for Eddy Lepp
Report from fundraiser for Eddy Lepp's legal defense....
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2004 10:59pm PDT
Make Ancient Forest Logging History
On Monday, October 4th HUNDREDS will gather in the Siskiyou Wild Rivers area of southwestern Oregon for a peaceful protest rally to stop the Biscuit Logging Project - the largest logging project in U.S. history!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 25, 2004 12:44pm PDT
Pepper Spray By Q-Tip Trial Ends in Jury Deadlock
The eight jurors in the Pepper Spray by Q-tip trial informed the judge at 3:15 Wednesday afternoon that they were "hopelessly deadlocked" and could not find resolution through further deliberation. After encouraging them to rethink their opinions and meeting privately with the jury foreman, Judge Susan Illston declared a mistrial....
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 9:34pm PDT
MATTOLE ACTIVISTS SENTENCED, HEADWATERS REUNION RALLY, GYPSY MEMORIAL
A FLURRY OF EARTH FIRST! ACTIONS AND ARRESTS
MATTOLE ACTIVISTS SENTENCED, HEADWATERS REUNION RALLY, GYPSY MEMORIAL...
Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2004 8:48am PDT
Images from the Pepper Spray Trial
A sampling of courtroom illustrations from the pepper spray trial; visit the nopepperspray.org site (below) for more......
Posted: Mon, Sep 20, 2004 9:54pm PDT
OREGON WILDERNESS PLAN EXEMPLIFIES BEST OF BUSH POLICY
The Bush campaign is awarding its first annual "Healthy Forestry" award to Senator Gordon Smith, R-OR, for finding a way to convert 19,000 acres of prized wilderness into a highly valuable tree farm....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 5:24pm PDT
Plaintiffs' Case Wraps Up in Pepper Spray By Q-tip Trial
The pepper spray by Q-tip trial to determine whether activists' Fourth Amendment rights were violated when law enforcement inserted Q-tips soaked in liquid pepper spray directly into their eyes continues in SF Federal court....
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 1:21pm PDT
Weekly fisheries news bulletin service of Fishlink - 3 September 2004
Dungeness Crab Trap Limits on California Governor’s Desk; Oregon Seeks MSC Certification. PFMC TO MEET IN SAN DIEGO; GROUNDFISH ISSUES DOMINATE AGENDA OREGON CLOSES SPORT FISHERY ON POPULAR GROUNDFISH STOCKS:...
Posted: Thu, Sep 16, 2004 12:55am PDT
Public Health Crisis - Prisons
Three Inmates dead in past few months at CMF/CSP Solano County alone, the UNION will be filing a lawsuit next week at a press conference in the death of a mentally ill by brain injury father of five children, stand by for exact date and time...
Posted: Mon, Sep 6, 2004 10:05pm PDT
Mattole Activists Assaulted, Arrested After Serving Subpoena for Pepper Spray Trial
Humboldt County Sheriffs, who are defendants in the pepper spray case, refused to take reports from activists after the assault....
Posted: Fri, Aug 27, 2004 12:44pm PDT
Aug 30th Klamath Forum w/ Congressman Thompson & Canyon Creek Comment Deadline
Congressman Mike Thompson is holding an important briefing meeting on the current health and conditions facing the Klamath's anadromous fish on August 30, 2004 at 1:30 p.m. in Eureka, at the City of Eureka
Council Chambers.
Deadline is tomorrow (August 26th) for comments and letters to the Shasta-Trinity National Forest regarding the Proposed Canyon Creek Open Pit Gold Mine....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 11:32pm PDT
Five Mattole activists arrested, camera stolen by Humboldt Sheriffs
Five Mattole Forest Defenders are being held at Eureka jail for standing in a state park road at Fox Camp Gate. They were not on Maxxam/Palco property yet were accused of trespassing by Carl Anderson. Humboldt Sheriff deputies confiscated camera that recorded vehicular assault by Palco/Columbia Helicopter logging trucks....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Nuclear fuel rods missing from Eureka Atomic plant waste pool (PG&E)
Apparently there are no records of the missing atomic waste since 1968. PG&E is not in as much trouble as Saddam, though this missing Nuclear material is very real......
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 1:06pm PDT
Headwaters Reunion (read this one)
Join us for a Headwaters Reunion, Sept. 13th-17th, at Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park Campgrounds....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 10:10am PDT
All campers to pay Ticketmaster??
The Government is promoting the "imbedded" fee model because they feel the public's perception of a seamless and free reservation system is desirable....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Amy Goodman in Eureka
Amy Goodman, journalist, author and host of Democracy Now, spoke to a packed house at Eureka's Municipal Auditorium Saturday, August 2004 in a benefit for radio stations KMUD and KHSU and to promote her book,co-authored with her brother David, The Exception to the Rulers....
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 9:51pm PDT
Help Save Jackson State Redwood Forest!
We are on the verge of permanently protecting California's
largest State Forest, a 50,000- acre redwood forest within a few hours of San Francisco!...
Posted: Mon, Aug 23, 2004 2:13pm PDT
MATTOLE FOREST ACTIVIST BEGINS 30 DAY JAIL SENTENCE
Yesterday, A Mattole Forest Defender was sentenced to 30 days in jail for protesting Maxxam/ Pacific Lumber’s liquidation logging in the Mattole watershed. Jemima Lamb, age 20, locked to a schoolbus in a prime backwoods intersection which leads to many Maxxam/PL logging plans....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 7:13pm PDT
PEPPER SPRAY Q-TIP SWABBING CASE HEADS TO COURT
Headwaters Forest Defense vs. County of Humboldt et al. Pepper spray plaintiffs represented by the civil rights legal team from the successful 2002 Earth First! (Judi Bari) vs. FBI and Oakland Police civil case....
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 1:36pm PDT